Ketchup Cured my Cancer!

Did you know that ketchup was once considered medicinal?

Ironically, until 1820 tomatoes were thought to be poisonous. It was only after Colonel Robert Johnson ate a basketful of the fruit and survived that tomatoes became an acceptable food (which begs the question, why exactly was Colonel Johnson eating a fruit widely believed to be fatal? But that's for another day.) In the mad dash for the latest fad, ketchup was bottled and sold as Dr. Miles' Compound Extract of Tomato and claimed to cure a wide assortment of ailments, including baldness. To counter, Heinz claimed scientific evidence that tomatoes contained certain antioxidants that could fight cancer.

Source: http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Detail/ketchup-medicine.html